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Episode III: Running Wild, Part II

Seeing the innocent bystanders being entangled and trapped inside powerful branches and plant life, Wally quickly zooms them both down the nearest alleyway.

"Poison Ivy, it has to be," he thinks out loud, putting on the ring gifted to him by his Uncle Barry recently. "Time to test this out."

Firing off the hidden suit within the ring, using his super speed he enters his full costume before it hits the ground, standing before M'gann with his trademark bright yellow.

"Nice," he comments, kissing the ring. "It means I don't have to haul my suit around all the time."

Then, he looks expectantly to M'gann, "What are you waiting for?"

Slapping her head, she yells, "Hello Megan!" before instantly changing into her green form, complete with her superhero attire.

"Superboy and Artemis should catch up with us soon, so we might as well keep Ivy occupied and away from those civilians before then," Wally formulates, pulling down the goggles over his eyes and giving M'gann an encouraging thumbs up. "We can do this."

Within a few moments of his words, the entangled civilians had been cut loose, and ushered away by Kid Flash, Miss Martian floating behind him.

"Kid Flash," the nature-obsessed super villain rides in on a giant branch, setting her feet down gracefully, and with a cold smirk on her face. "What a pleasure to meet you again. But... where's Batman's little tool?"

"Of all the places, you mess around at the park? I mean, doesn't this place have a lot of plants already?" Wally snorts, provoking a wicked smile from the villain, her eyes wandering over the two with a faint curiosity.

"Now that I think about it, it's bad she's here; plenty of plants for her to command," Wally mentally grimaces to M'gann, keeping track of the plants in close proximity in the inevitable onslaught to come. "But we need to find out why she's here."

"Do you truly believe that simply because you place a few lonely plants in this disgusting zoo, it makes up for the endless years of destruction?" Ivy spits, genuinely disgusted with the notion of a park. "You might be just a child, but you can't be this naive."

"The park may be disgusting to you, but twisting the plants to your will is just as terrible," M'gann speaks up, earning the ire of Poison Ivy, who holds out an arm and watches as a branch snakes its way up her forearm.

"I'm not twisting anything, little girl, mother nature itself is on my side!" Ivy shouts, clearly growing more intense as the brief exchange comes to its eventual close.

"Ummm... so why have you always failed?" Wally goads her further, sending a cheeky wink her way. "Maybe nature isn't as supportive of you as your sick mind let's you believe."

"Are you sure it's wise to insult her?" M'gann worriedly asks down the link, her concern travelling along with her words.

"Definitely not, but since when has anything I've done been wise?"

"Can we not just have a quiet run through the park without all hell breaking loose!" Artemis groans to his partner, watching as the super villain knows as Blockbuster rampages through the street they can see close by, hurtling cars and other heavy vehicles around like a child having a violent temper tantrum. "Why is Blockbuster in Happy Harbour of all places? It's literally one of the most towns in the United States."

"Maybe he didn't think there would be any heroes around to stop him," Conner wonders.

"Bad luck for him then," Artemis pats Conner on the shoulder.

"You'd better get changed," Conner advises, taking off into the direction of the noise, pretty much already in his superhero gear since all he wears is a shirt anyway. "I'll hold him off."

"Save a piece of him for me," she commands at his rapidly disappearing figure, the clone's from leaping around into the air to cover large distances.

Hurrying back to the Zeta-tube nearby, it doesn't take long before she's inside of Mount Justice, scrambling for her room, and the costume stored inside of it.

Usually, she wouldn't get away with causing such a loud ruckus as someone would be here to yell at her for sprinting around, but the mountain is disturbingly quiet, with not even Shazam loitering around; the superhero has a tendency to hang around with the team, and pretend he's watching over them, when in reality it's obvious he just wants to interact with the group.

A shame really, because if he was younger, he'd be a perfect fit for the group: powerful, enthusiastic, and with the ability to smile every few minutes even if there's nothing to smile about.

Hawkwoman shows up every once and a while, to make sure they haven't tore each other and the building around them to pieces. She's really taken to the role of mother hen well, being both protective and lenient at the same time. She's relaxed, and doesn't protest every move they make unlike Wonder Woman.

They can't even watch a TV show without her unexpectedly arriving and chastising them for not training endlessly- a warrior, no doubt, but not the greatest de facto parent.

Heck, she's even delighted to see the Green Lantern every once in a while- the original one for Earth, because for some reason, Earth has a terrible track record for Green Lanterns- because he reminds her Kyle had a mentor who had an uncanny resemblance to him personality wise.

Despite Kyle being downright rude at times, his mentor's normally much more socially aware, but from the rumours she's heard, it wasn't always that way. Furthermore, they're both provocative, and like to push people's buttons, especially the Batman; according to Shazam, the two never get on along very well, with both being as stubborn as the other.

As normal, she briefly halts at the clearly labelled door leading to Kyle's old room, imagining him opening it with a mischievous grin on his face.

Alas, her dreams forfeit to reality, and the door remains closed. It's been a long while since his death, yet she hasn't even stepped inside the room once.

Once I come back, she promises herself, urging her feet to move down the corridor to her own room, her name clearly adorned on the frame, complete with a bow and arrow next to it, courtesy of a bored Kyle. So cheesy.

Sometimes, his artistic expression gets the best of him and he went on sprees of random drawing and creative mayhem, pretty much vandalising the rooms- normally Conner's, simply to annoy him further. He usually left her room alone, but after they finally got together, he started decorating.

When she arrived back at the mountain, her initial instinct was to remove the insignia, but she decided it would be too inappropriate; it's a gift from him, in his own eccentric way, and she'll at least attempt to cherish it.

Opening the door, she frantically opens up her bag, pulling out her costume and rapidly suiting up, making sure her arrows are prepared simultaneously. Since she's performed the same motions many times over in his time as a hero, it becomes a second nature to check her equipment is in working order.

Taking one last glance at the picture of her and Kyle so annoyingly placed on the wall by her bed, she doesn't realise she left her room until her shoes begin clattering on the ground of the corridor and it's shiny surface.

Also reminding herself to try and change her outfit- the suit itself doesn't feel like her anymore, and perhaps it was time to shake things up anyway- she's back at the Zeta tube in no time at all.

Teleporting back into Happy Harbour, she's amazed by the lack of movement or sound. In fact, the town seems barren compared to the usual small doses of pedestrians and cars moving around the quiet streets.

Now, there's little more than birds mumbles amongst themselves in the few trees dotted around.

It's a telltale sign there's a villain on the loose, as people tends to stick indoors even if the action is on the other end of the town, and considering there's no sounds of intense battle around her, she guesses it's moved on to some place else, hopefully with Conner taking the fight to Blockbuster.

Deciding to simply estimate where the action is taking place, she hurriedly takes off towards the other end of the town.

With a bit of heroes luck, she might even arrive in time to prevent Conner from getting too agitated and stressed, which ultimately ends with him creating massive craters and damage seemingly whenever he takes a small step.

Conner's a great friend and a powerful ally in the fight against villainy, but he definitely isn't a model hero when it comes to the point of preventing costly damage to the environment, and it certainly doesn't get better as the fight drags on.

She'll need to find him. Fast.


Poison Ivy's seedlings and minion amass around Wally for their third try at taking him down, their numbers seemingly growing as his efforts to stop them increase, perhaps sensing the fatigue and nerves growing.

Being inside of a lush park, both him and M'gann are on the back foot constantly, attempting to gain some footing and stem the tide of vines and plants hurling themselves at them.

M'gann's fairly better off than Wally, considering she can effectively fly away from them to distance herself, whereas Wally's routes of escape are growing thin; soon, he'll have nowhere left to run, and then, he'll probably be overwhelmed by the plantlife.

Not the most optimistic thoughts, but Barry didn't teach him to be blind to reality either. Sometimes, it's better to realise when things are going south.

This is one of those times.

"Can you try and contact them again?" he asks his companion, narrowly dodging a vine trying to curl around his ankle.

"I can't reach them," she returns, likewise almost being caught by Ivy's unrelenting minions, "something must be blocking me."

"Where are they? They should have been right behind us," Wally moans, beginning to shove the festering annoyance down into his legs to spur him on.

"I like your commitment, children, but how long can you hold out against the inevitable wrath of nature?" Poison Ivy sneers from her safe perch on top of a large and thick branch, spectating the action with a villainous curiosity.

Wally tries to think of a comeback, but nothing pops up. "Shut up," is all he can muster from his frustration, further deepening his irritation.

Due to the convenient absence of the intellect of the group- they could certainly use the brains of Robin at the moment- Wally muses the responsibility must fall to him for the time being.

Buying a few moments for him to think and formulate a plan, he zooms off, allowing him to think at super speeds.

Halting, and then turning back and returning to the action, he glances at Ivy and then to M'gann, before speaking, "M'gann, if I can generate enough speed, can you cannonball me into Ivy?"

"Tell me when," comes her hurried response, her mind being distracted by the tree elevating to her, a hand of branches outstretched.

Examining the distance between Ivy and M'gann, he comes to the unfortunate conclusion his speed must be impeccable. Too fast, and he hurtles right over the villain and into hard ground below, and too slow, and she reacts in time to stop him. Just right, and he'll land directly on top of her, giving him a viable chance to end this parade.

What is additionally unfortunate is Wally has never been known for being fully able to control his speed. There's something about using the speed force which normally entails speeding up rather than slowing down intentionally.

Luck is the most unpredictable weapon in a superheroes arsenal, according to Uncle Barry, and it appears Wally has to roll the dice and bet on the outcome.

Launched into the air by M'gann after he took a massive run-up, Wally barrels forwards, his legs still running as though on a solid surface. If it was anyone else, Wally would find it comical, but since he's fairly certain they're in deep trouble, he's trying his best to take it seriously.

As he takes a quick look around at the slow-motion environment, he watches as the grass gently sways in the wind and as the birds wings flap; he's missed many things about being a superhero, and the ability to see things like this is one of them.

Let's hope the speed force is behind me.


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